Michael Pollan engagement report
@michaelpollan - 574K followers on X
Measured over 28 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 26, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 30 interactions against 574K followers, an engagement rate of 0.005%. Measured over 28 original posts, its engagement rate beats 25% of 3,882 tracked accounts of a similar size, which puts it in the middle of its size range rather than at either end. Posts are seen about 15K times each, and 0.206% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 2.57% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.2 post a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 67% of days. Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 28 posts sampled, 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 113 interactions, about 3.8x its own typical post.
Measured over 28 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 26, 2026. Recurring tag: #sideways.
Compared with accounts its own size
Michael Pollan's engagement rate beats 25% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,882 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 8 of 10)). A percentile is spread evenly by construction, so 50 really is the middle of that group and 90 really is its top tenth.
On engagement per impression rather than per follower it beats 17% of the same group. When those two numbers disagree, the gap is about how far its posts travel rather than how people react to them.
Where this sits in the catalog
At 0.005%, Michael Pollan sits above the 10th percentile of the 37,582 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.012%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.002% |
| 25th percentile | 0.012% |
| 50th percentile | 0.081% |
| 75th percentile | 0.439% |
| 90th percentile | 2.10% |
| 99th percentile | 158.1% |
This ruler is the whole measured catalog, not a size-matched group: it shows where the raw rate falls across every account we can measure, all of which are large. For a like-for-like comparison, read the size-band percentile above instead. See how the bands are built
Posting timing
This account posts most often around 16:00 UTC, and Monday is its busiest day of the week. The bars below are the catalog-wide pattern, with this account's own busiest slot marked. They do not show how this account performs at each hour: we keep one aggregate per account, not one per hour, so that measurement does not exist in our data.
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
| Hour (UTC) | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| 00:00 UTC | -1% | 52K |
| 01:00 UTC | -2% | 53K |
| 02:00 UTC | -3% | 51K |
| 03:00 UTC | -4% | 55K |
| 04:00 UTC | -6% | 44K |
| 05:00 UTC | -4% | 43K |
| 06:00 UTC | -4% | 50K |
| 07:00 UTC | -5% | 54K |
| 08:00 UTC | -4% | 62K |
| 09:00 UTC | -3% | 72K |
| 10:00 UTC | -2% | 74K |
| 11:00 UTC | -3% | 81K |
| 12:00 UTC | -2% | 89K |
| 13:00 UTC | -2% | 98K |
| 14:00 UTC | -4% | 101K |
| 15:00 UTC | -2% | 104K |
| 16:00 UTC | -3% | 102K |
| 17:00 UTC | -3% | 94K |
| 18:00 UTC | -1% | 88K |
| 19:00 UTC | -2% | 83K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 77K |
| 21:00 UTC | -1% | 68K |
| 22:00 UTC | -2% | 59K |
| 23:00 UTC | -2% | 53K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +5% | 237K |
| Monday | 0% | 300K |
| Tuesday | -3% | 299K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 256K |
| Thursday | -1% | 249K |
| Friday | -3% | 258K |
| Saturday | +3% | 232K |
Best tweets
- Jul 21, 20263.8x their median
Don't miss this important story: ‘Cancer Doesn't Care What Party You Belong To’: Poisoned Water Is Turning This Rural State Bluer - POLITICO https://t.co/29QDz2AlWI
- Aug 8, 20263.3x their median
Michael Pollan’s ‘A World Appears’ Review: Exploring Consciousness, Psychedelics and the Mystery of Being Alive https://t.co/XKn69bbPyI
- Aug 10, 20262.9x their median
Are Psychedelics Right-Wing Now? | The New Yorker https://t.co/zYxdHmh1CV
- Aug 11, 20262.8x their median
This should be good: Michael Pollan & Christof Koch: A Journey into Consciousness | Cal Performances https://t.co/jm3GQfStal
- Aug 20, 20262.3x their median
Check out my podcast with Peter Singer on plant consciousness, psychedelics and ethics - YouTube https://t.co/3aaLek0OTi
- Jul 17, 20261.8x their median
Really enjoyed this one with my meditation teacher, Michael Taft:The Mystery of Consciousness with Michael Pollan - Deconstructing Yourself https://t.co/PVKRfDpREN
- Aug 12, 20261.6x their median
Check out this cool new book: Imagine That: Transform How You Think, Feel, and Live with the Science of Imagination: Vieten PhD, Cassandra, Docter, Pete: 9781668067390: https://t.co/0LV7sFb2xl: Books https://t.co/TZJftQ1Knq
- Aug 14, 20261.5x their median
(100) Veterans Affairs continues to drive federal psychedelics push; New FDA guidance; and Resilient Pharmaceuticals tries again for MDMA approval https://t.co/hcOyd7Tbhg
- Aug 4, 20261.5x their median
Out today, fascinating new book from @SciPsychedelics X @ucbsoj fellow Keemon de Greef The Ego Trip: Psychedelic Toads, a Trail of Deaths, and the Guru Who Peddled Transcendence: 9780385550246: de Greef, Kimon: Books https://t.co/co35W0n7dQ
- Aug 25, 20261.5x their median
Big Food Is Winning the War for America’s Diet https://t.co/djXdaCflYx via @NYTOpinion
Ranked by total interactions across everything we have tracked for this account, which is a longer history than the 30-day window the rates above use. The multiple compares each post to this account's own median.
Recurring topics
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Reading these numbers
A typical post picks up 30 interactions against 574K followers, an engagement rate of 0.005%. Measured over 28 original posts, its engagement rate beats 25% of 3,882 tracked accounts of a similar size, which puts it in the middle of its size range rather than at either end. Posts are seen about 15K times each, and 0.206% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 2.57% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.2 post a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 67% of days. Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 28 posts sampled, 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 113 interactions, about 3.8x its own typical post.
- What is Michael Pollan's engagement rate on X?
- Michael Pollan (@michaelpollan) has an engagement rate of 0.005%, based on the median interactions across 28 original posts from the last 30 days against 574,021 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.005%, Michael Pollan sits above the 10th percentile of the 37,582 accounts in this comparison. Those comparison accounts are all large ones, because our scanning cadence is weighted towards big accounts, so this is a ranking among peers of similar scale rather than a ranking across X.
- Does @michaelpollan have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 25% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,882 accounts), which puts it in the middle of its size range group. Ranking inside a size band matters because engagement rate falls as accounts grow, so a raw rate would mostly re-measure the follower count. It is a starting point for a look at follower quality, not a verdict on it.
- When does @michaelpollan post?
- Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Monday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.2 posts per day across the measured window.